A/N: I'm surprised that I got this out. I wasn't sure if I was gonna finish this chapter.

Lexie: No…I don't think we allow public beheadings either lol.

"Hey." Alex greets her girlfriend as she leans against the lockers clutching her books.

Casey doesn't spare Alex a glance as she continues to put old books in her locker, and take out the ones that she knows she's going to need for the first part of the day. "Hey…" she mumbles, still not even bothering to look at the blonde.

Alex frowns and shifts awkwardly on her feet as she waits for Casey to acknowledge her. When she doesn't get that, she daintily clears her throat trying to draw attention to herself. "What's wrong with you? You've hardly said anything to me for three days. Did I do something?"

Instead of respond Casey slightly glares at Alex out of the corner of her eye before she shakes her head and goes back to what she's doing. "No." she responds flatly, really not wanting to start any full on conversation. Closing her locker, she shifts her books in her arms and finally turns towards Alex. "I've got to get to class. I'll see you later."

Alex opens her mouth to say something more, but closes it as she watches Casey quickly spin on her heel and walk the other direction. She frowns as she stares at the retreating back of her girlfriend in confusion. What the hell just happened?

Casey squeezes her eyes shut as she slows down. She quickly glances behind her to see if Alex is still watching her but relaxes when she notices the blonde has decided to make her way to class. With a sigh, she turns around and is startled when she is suddenly face to face with Kim.

"Jesus Kim, you scared me half to death." she mutters walking around the taller brunette towards her first class.

"You should punch Abbie in the face." Kim states flatly as she and Casey make their way towards their trigonometry class.

Casey frowns and shakes her head at the seemingly ridiculous suggestion. "I'm not going to punch Abbie in the face. Why would I do that?"

"Uh maybe because it's because of her that the whole school thinks your girlfriend is cheap and easy?"

"And would also be because of her that every bone in my body would be broken if I try to hit her. Have you not been paying attention? Abbie is an athlete who works out on daily basis. The most running that I ever do is to catch the bus in the morning. So pardon me if I don't want to be pounded into the ground like a tomato seed."

Kim rolls her eyes as they slip into the classroom and take their seats. "I'm just saying, you need to do something. Stand up for Alex."

"Alex has about sixty secret service agents at her disposal." Casey responds flatly as she gets out her trig book. "Why she hasn't decided to use them is her business."

"I don't know, maybe because she's waiting for her girlfriend to step up and defend her?"

"What am I supposed to do Kim, honestly?! I'm not going to go pick a fight that I know isn't going to solve anything, and that I know I'm not going to win. It's completely pointless. So you tell me, what is it that I'm supposed to do?"

"Hell, I don't know, it's your fight…"

"See, that's what I'm saying! There is no fight and I can't understand why you and the rest of the girls think that the solution to this problem is violence, because it's not!"

"Well I'm just saying. What happened in the hall? Aren't you talking to her?"

"No…not that I'd want to right now or anything…"

Kim raises her eyebrows in confusion at the rather darkly spoken comment. "What do you mean?" she asks curiously, before her lips form into a perfect 'O' shape. "Oh my gosh, are you guys fighting?"

Casey is silent for a moment before she shrugs and begins to absentmindedly doodle on her notebook. "I wouldn't say fighting. We just aren't exactly talking or anything. And frankly I'm a little mad at her."

"For what?"

"Well before you came and got her from my house last week, I tried to convince her not to go to that party because I really didn't want her to go. At all. I knew that a lot of trouble makers would be there, and I didn't want Alex to get hurt, but of course, she didn't listen."

"Give her a break. She's just trying to be a normal teenager."

"I know that, and that's why I feel bad for being mad at her, but I can't help it. That and I can't believe that she actually took a drink from Abbie. I mean come one, how is it NOT like Abbie to put something in a drink? But I didn't tell Alex that, but I think she can kind of tell. So long story short, we haven't exactly been on speaking terms ever since almost three days ago. Today was the first time that she's ever tried to talk to me."

"That's really ridiculous Casey. I mean, come on, it's not like it's her fault!"

"Yeah, I try to keep telling myself that…"

"Miss Greyleck, Miss Novak, do the two of you have something that you would like to share with the rest of the class?" the teacher questions rhetorically.

"No ma'am." Both girls murmur as they start to pay attention to the lesson for the day. Mid way through Casey rolls her eyes when Kim writes her a note that says 'punch Abbie in the face'. Honestly, did this girl not listen to a thing that was said earlier?

Meanwhile…

"Alex…Alex….ALEX!"

Alex's head snaps up from her desk in immediate surprise at her name practically being shouted in her ear. "What?!"

Serena tilts her head to the side in concern but nevertheless points to the paper sitting in the middle of their group. "We asked you where the Sierra Nevada started."

Alex narrows her eyes and snatches a colored pencil from Connie's outstretched hand before she hastily scribbles some triangles on where the mountain range is supposed to be. "There." She snips before practically throwing the pencil back at the girl sitting in front of her.

"Geez, who pissed in your cornflakes this morning…" Connie mumbles as she bends over to pick up the discarded object off the floor.

Alex groans before she lays her head back down on her desk, not feeling like going through the motions of school. "Everyone thinks I'm a slut, and Casey won't even look at me. She hasn't even spoke to me for three days and today when I tried to talk to her, she still wouldn't even look at me. I think she's mad at me guys."

Serena's eyes widen and her mouth forms into a perfect 'O'. "I've noticed that! But why would she be mad at you? You didn't do anything wrong…did you?"

"Not that I know of, and like I said, even if I try to ask her about whatever it is that I did wrong, I'm sure that she'll just ignore me like she has been."

"You could always follow her around and continuously bug her until she talks to you." Connie offers with a shrug. "That always seems to work on television."

Alex rolls her eyes and shakes her head in disapproval. "I doubt that would work. I don't even knows guys, it's like she's completely shut me off, and this whole slut thing really isn't making it any better. It's like when I need her most, she isn't there."

This time it's Serena who shrugs and comes up with another completely outrageous suggestion. "You could teepee her house…and then say you won't clean it up unless she talks to you."

Connie narrows her eyes and slowly turns her head towards her bubbly friend. "Is that new hairspray you're using leaking through into your brain? God, I swear you are the biggest ditz sometimes."

"Thanks Connie, tell me how you really feel." Serena mutters in response with an eye roll. "I'm just tossing out idea. But Ali, the two of you are really the cutest couple in the history of EVER. I couldn't stand it if the two of you broke up."

"Me either Rena." Alex mumbles sadly. "Me either…"

Lunch

"This silent treatment between the two of you is really killing the rest of us." Amanda states blandly as she watches Casey and Alex blatantly ignore each other. Actually, it's more of Casey ignoring Alex but still…it's still ignoring.

"Yeah, this has been going on for almost four days now." Kim says seriously, eying her two friends with curiosity. "It needs to stop, and I'm not the only one here who agrees with that idea."

Alex huffs and folds her arms as she looks at the three girls sitting across the table. "Yes well, I am doing what I can to fix the situation. The fact that SOMEONE wants to be completely childish about this entire ordeal is so not my problem."

Casey rolls her eyes and shakes her head as she knows exactly what Alex is trying to do; she's trying to get a rise out of her. But Casey intends on staying quiet, simply because she doesn't want to talk about it; especially in front of their friends.

"Seriously guys come on." Serena groans giving Alex a gentle kick under the table. "You guys are too cute to fight, and I don't wanna see you guys break up. Especially if it's over something as petty as this."

"You don't know what it's about Serena." Alex states flatly before turning to Casey. "I don't even know what it's about. Frankly, if you're going to be mad at me, I think that I would at least have a right to know what it is that I've done to deserve this childish silent treatment."

"I'm the childish ones, yet here you are using passive aggressive tactics in trying to get me to speak to you." Casey mumbles quietly, still not looking up from where she was intently staring at the table. "If anything I would say that it's you who is being childish."

Alex's eyes narrow into thin angry slits as she stands up from her spot on the bench. "Casey seriously! What is it about me that is suddenly so repulsive and suddenly so sickening that you can't even look at me anymore, let alone speak to me! And you know what, it's not just me who notices, the rest of the girls here notice too."

"No, do not bring us into this." Kim mutters shaking her head as she and the rest of the girls duck their heads, not wanting to be apart of this fight. "She does have a point though. We have kind of noticed that the energy between the two of you has been a little more than negative."

Casey rolls her eyes and finally for the first time in nearly four days she makes direct contact with Alex. However, he gaze is steely, cold, and frankly, it's a look that Alex has never seen before. "Has it ever occurred to you that maybe I just don't want to talk to you, because I just DON'T? Why does everything have to have a reason for you?"

"Because you're hurting me and I deserve to know why." Alex responds firmly as she crosses her arms tightly over her chest. "I don't want you ignoring me anymore, and I demand to know why you have been."

"You can't demand anything from me Alex. I'm not your slave, I'm not your servant, and I'm not one of your little workers that waits on you hand and foot on a daily basis like you get when you're at home." Casey nearly shouts, quickly recomposing herself because she just isn't the type of person who shouts. "You shouldn't have went to that party that night."

Alex's mouth falls open as she catches the tail end of Casey's rant. "THAT'S what this is about? Because I went to some stupid party?"

Casey's anger flares and she hits the table, succeeding in causing the other girls to jump from being startled by the noise. "Yes that's what this is about Alex. Because you went to that stupid party. That stupid party that I told you not to go to, and that stupid party where you got hurt. It's your own fault that it happened, because I told you that I didn't want you going to a party like that."

"You aren't in charge of me!" Alex shrieks, her pain and her anger beginning to mix into one colossal emotion. "I wanted to go because I want to feel like a normal kid! And you're blaming all that happened there on me? Aren't you supposed to defend me?" "Well it's kind of hard to defend you when you make stupid decisions." Casey replies firmly, folding her arms tightly.

Alex falls completely silent upon hearing Casey's cold words come out as calmly as they did. She can't believe what she's hearing. The girl who is supposed to be her girlfriend, who is starting to fall in love with is blaming her for the horrible things that happened. Out of the corner of her eye, she catches the movement of a person, and she quickly spins on her heel with out a second glance at Casey or the girls.

Blinded by her anger, Alex quickly storms across the courtyard and stops a completely clueless Abbie dead in her tracks. Alex then grabs a hold of the brunette's jacket, before she quickly throws her arms around her neck, and kisses her smack on the lips in front of the entire courtyard.

Four jaws practically hit the table as Casey slowly begins to comprehend what's going on. She unclenches her fists before she quickly gathers her things from the table and heads inside the school with out another word, and certainly not another glance behind her.

Oooooo! Oh snap, that was big. Why did I do that? Because I'm evil and practically the queen of cliffhangers, that's why. Leave your feedback!